About an hour before midnight on July 31, three policemen and a Hindu neighbor barged into a Christian woman’s house in northern India and ordered her and her husband to either give them money or go to jail.
The couple with their children live in Uttar Pradesh state’s Sarai Gunja village, in Jaunpur District. The officers told them they couldn’t pray in their house and had come to arrest them, Rajak told Morning Star News.......

Christian villagers in a rural district of India’s Maharashtra state have been told that one church will be closed down every week because they have been “destroying” local tradition and culture by “luring” others to convert to Christianity.

Since June, over a dozen houses belonging to Christians have been attacked by local extremist groups across five villages within Gadchiroli district.....

Religious freedom advocate ADF India has noted a rise in incidents of religiously motivated violence in India’s two Telugu language-speaking southern states, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, including the brutal murder of an elderly Christian woman.

So far this year, ADF India says it has verified 17 incidents of anti-Christian persecution at the hands of Hindu extremist groups, all taking place within or close to Hyderabad, which is .....

The bishops deliver a memorandum to the state governor.

Christian NGOs in Jharkhand are neither illegal nor a terrorist den said the memo sent by the state’s Catholic bishops to Governor Droupadi Murmu. The bishops complain, the investigation has spread to include all Christian associations, which have become the target of discrimination "just because they are Christian". The Jharkhand Bishops' Council made....

The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, one of several to be ruled by the governing BJP party, is emerging as a new centre of anti-Christian violence as politicians use a fundamentalist form of Hinduism to intimidate minority communities. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is a Hindu nationalist who founded a youth militia called Hindu Yuva Vahini which has attacked churches and pastors, and lynched Muslims who consume beef.......